best of 2023

 Buffy Sainte-Marie is Italian.  jfc

Update: Nick Kouvalis

A conservative political strategist and a Hamilton activist have each been fined $50 for trespassing at a Burlington Kelseys after an incident in September. (cbc.ca) To Coulton Boushie and friends, joy rides aren't equal. Warren Kinsella will defend you.

best of 2016

Canada doesn't have solitary confinement, because luckily it's called administrative segregation.

Adam Capay has spent 1,560 days in solitary.
www.macleans.ca

• In the hole for 52 months.
• Youth justice system.

last year, late friday

Aboriginal Affairs Minister, John Duncan (C-Vancouver Island North), resigned from cabinet last year, late on Friday, political interference. In July 2013 (cabinet shuffle), he replaced Gordon O'Connor as party whip.

Bernard Valcourt (C-Madawaska-Restigouche) was appointed Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. See: oil & gas, Crown land and reindeer/caribou grazing.

To prevent road deaths, reindeer in Finland get fluorescent antlers.

Whoa, Finnish Reindeer Herder’s Association. link

Or Maybe They Floated There on a Log

First Nations/Aboriginal Index

A. History of Aboriginal
 1. 300 Spartans Fought to Protect It  
The Standard Model of history.
“Some cats got it” – challenging Eurocentric history.

2. Myths of the Traveler  
Travelers’ Tales. Europeans were not the only travelers.  
Stumbling Upon a Continent. Beringia, and the early settlement of the Americas.  
Or Maybe They Floated There on a Log.  How Eurocentric scholars address accomplishments by other peoples. cont.

Amber. alerts. & funny. hunting. jokes.

Amber TUCCARO - Media Release August 28, 2012 Amber

Mikisew Cree First Nation
cbc.ca

TUCCARO was reported missing by her mother after she failed to return to a hotel in Nisku where she had been staying with her infant son and a girl friend. TUCCARO was residing in Fort McMurray at the time of her disappearance and has not had contact with her family since August 18th, 2010. TUCCARO is approximately 5'6 (167cm), 144 lbs (65 kg) with black hair, brown eyes. Police believe she was last seen in the Nisku area. Update: police seeking info news video, unknown voice 

Royal Canadian Legion BC Newsletter Publishes Offensive "Indian" Joke," August 16, 2012. 'The joke begins with the two hunters in northern Saskatchewan when “an Indian runs across the field.” The Saskatchewan hunter aims and shoots the aboriginal dead. The Alberta hunter expresses shock, but the Saskatchewan hunter tells him it’s legal in Saskatchewan. Later, the Alberta hunter buys beer and puts it on the roof of his truck when “an Indian runs by, grabs the beer and runs away.” The Alberta hunter then pulls out a pistol and shoots the person dead. He’s later arrested by an RCMP officer who tells him that it’s illegal to use “bait” when shooting “Indians” in Saskatchewan.' full article

bison herds, rail & cattle barons, U.S. army, fences & extinction

Kill the food, kill the Indian. I am too lazy to tell the stinkhole story. One year buffalo just didn't come back to the northern range. Here is a haunting painting.

by Judith Dragonette

RECENT NEWS: The bull, the living embodiment of this country's untamed spirit, was killed for walking onto the hobby ranch of the wealthy Povah family.  Mr. Povah had complained that the buffalo was "threatening my fence."  The Montana Department of Livestock (DOL) agent that shot him made no attempt to move the bull off the private property and onto the adjacent Gallatin National Forest. Buffalo Field Campaign West Yellowstone, penning, corrals, captivity, brucellosis etc.

circa 1870. source: Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

circa 1870. source: Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

Bison herds could delay a train for days.